About this role
Job summary
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust is a Top Employer Award Winner and works in partnership to provide responsive and dependable primary care, mental health, intellectual disability and substance misuse services to the diverse and culturally rich communities we serve.
In our quest to deliver patient-focused quality care we are looking to recruit a highly motivated, innovative and enthusiastic Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join our forward thinking, friendly and expanding Health & Justice team at HMP Feltham B.
By joining our Prisons Health Care Team, you will not only look after the mental health needs of our patients residing in secure environments, but who also can have a real impact on promoting health and well-being. Our healthcare services work to a 7-day week working model, to ensure our patient's healthcare is always managed and maintained to the highest of standards.
Our motto is "Caring NOT Judging" so by working in partnership with the criminal justice system and other agencies, we provide responsive, dependable and high-quality primary care and mental health services to those who may have offended and those at risk of offending in the communities we serve, to improve their health status and to encourage social inclusion.
Why not see what our staff say about working within our award-winning teams: https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/health-and-justice/find-out-what-its-work-health-and-justice
Main duties of the job
This is a unique and exciting opportunity to be part of an innovative new model of care (NMOC), and to use all of your clinical and interpersonal abilities, develop new skills, and work with men who need and deserve high quality care.
Feltham B is now a Category C male adult prison and is currently aligning its services to the New Model of Care (NMOC). The NMOC is designed to promote patient safety and wellbeing from the point of reception into custody through to release, ensuring continuity of care, appropriate risk management, and seamless handover into the community or onward transfer to another establishment.
The NMOC is structured around four core teams (pillars):
1. Early Days in Custody (EDIC) - focusing on immediate health, mental health, and substance misuse needs at reception and during the early period in custody.
2. Planned Care (PlC) - delivering ongoing, structured care for patients with identified health, mental health, and substance misuse needs.
3. Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) - providing timely assessment and response to acute and urgent presentations.
4. Release and Transfer (RT) - ensuring safe, coordinated transition of care on release or transfer, with robust communication to community and receiving services.
This model supports a whole-pathway, patient-centred approach, underpinned by multidisciplinary working, clear governance, and shared accountability.
About us
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust offers its staff ongoing career progression through:
Monthly supervision
Annual personal development plans/appraisals
Access to exciting internal and external training opportunities.
Excellent progression through various career pathway opportunities such as but not limited to:
Preceptorship Programme
Support and guidance with Revalidation
Hidden Gem and annual award ceremonies
Excellent staff benefits, our benefit packages are amongst the best in London and include:
Health and wellbeing services
Season ticket loans
Cycle to work scheme
Relocation package *subject to meeting criteria*
The trust also values its staff, and you are entitled to become a member of MyTrustBenefits. MyTrustBenefits is an online portal for all CNWL staff, as well as their family and friends. It offers over 1400 discounts at hundreds of retailers nationwide. Save money on your weekly food shops, toiletries, cosmetics, cinema, meals out, holidays, travel and entertainment. You can also access free online courses on a variety of topics, professional and personal, ranging from business management, languages, law and teaching.
All our prison sites offer free use of the onsite leisure facilities and free parking for staff.
Job description Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description for full list of duties and responsibilities.
The post holder will ideally have previous experience in relevant forensic mental health services. Experience working with service-users with additional neuro-developmental needs, such as Learning Disabilities (LD), ADHD, social communication and Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) would be beneficial to this role due to the diverse needs of the population.
Inaddition to contributing to the Occupational Therapy programme and assisting with the development of group provision within the wider prison, you will be expected to supervise students. You will also provide specialist OT assessments and interventions at the same time as offeringadvice and consultation within an MDT approach.
You could make a difference! This is a varied role working within a rich multidisciplinary team which affords us the benefit of being able to work in a truly holistic and responsive manner. It takes a very special, dedicated, resilient and caring clinician to provide care in such an intense, dynamic environment, and you will be joining like-minded exceptional healthcare professionals in a dedicated and supportive team.
Person Specification
Education & Quailifications Essential
Degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy. HCPC registered Occupational Therapist
Desirable
Post graduate training specific to mental health Qualifications/training in specialist skills eg. therapeutic/sensory interventions Training in delivering sensory based interventions and assessments Practice placement educators' course
Previous Experience Essential
Post qualification experience working in mental health services. Experience in using a range of standardised OT assessments Experience of effective partnership working, with external providers, in promoting socially inclusive opportunities for service users Experience in completing Risk Assessment Tools
Desirable
Experience in prison and/or secure settings Experience delivering interventions and assessments to young people within mental health settings Experience of supervising students/junior staff Experience contributing to the delivery of care for neurodiverse individuals
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities Essential
Individual and group work assessment and intervention skills. Ability to deal with sensitivities and complexities, using interpersonal skills Skills in producing timely, accurate and informative reports and notes Knowledge of personal recovery principles and their application to service delivery Clear concept of Occupational Therapy and models of practice Ability to determine the impact of mental and physical conditions on a service user's functional ability and undertake assessment/make recommendations with regards to the provision of equipment/aids and adaptations.
Attitudes, Aptitudes & Personal Characteristics Essential
Committed to working as part of an MDT Able to utilise supervision effectively Ability to work independently and is self motivated
Other Essential
The post holder must have the ability to understand and implement the equal opportunities policy at a level appropriate to the job Ability to promote anti-discriminatory and anti-racist practices. Ability to promote and work in line with the working model of a 7 day a week service.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Address HMP Feltham B Side
Bedfont Road,
Feltham, Middlesex,
TW13 4ND
Employer's website https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work (Opens in a new tab)